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HALIFAX — Though it wasn’t a full-fledged hurricane when it made landfall in Nova Scotia, the hurricane-force winds from post-tropical storm Dorian caused extensive damage to the electric grids in all three Maritime provinces over the weekend. At one point, about 500,000 homes and businesses in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. were left in the dark as Dorian flattened...

Business Insider learns that the government is planning to overturn a recent court ruling in the Essar Steel case. The bankruptcy law may be amended to allow banks to invoke personal guarantees from promoters, something that the appellate court had disallowed. This is likely to affect promoters like Prashant Ruia of Essar Group who have given their personal guarantee for banks...

Heavy rain and wind move through Charleston, S.C. on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Hurricane Dorian raked the coastal Carolinas with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes and businesses as it pushed northward toward the dangerously exposed Outer Banks. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) As Hurricane...

A possible tropical cyclone is bearing down on the Bahamas communities that were decimated just days ago by the Category 5 storm Hurricane Dorian. Although the potential storm isn’t expected to be near Dorian’s level, it may still wreak havoc on islands such as Great Abaco and Grand Bahama, where at least 50 people were killed during Dorian. Tropical storm warnings have been...

As Hurricane Dorian continued moving toward the U.S. with increasing intensity and a possible shift to the northwest that could have a greater than anticipated impact in Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp late Thursday afternoon declared a state of emergency in 12 Georgia counties. >> READ MORE: State of emergency for 12 South Georgia counties ahead of Hurricane Dorian State agencies are...

Dorian has become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 hurricane, forecasters said. The storm’s winds rose to 130mph as Dorian gained new strength while crossing warm Atlantic waters. The hurricane could strike Florida with even higher winds and torrential rains late on Monday or early on Tuesday, with millions of people in the crosshairs, along with Walt Disney World and US...